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Doug Nel

Doug is a journalist, sub-editor and copywriter with 20 years’ experience in getting words to work as effectively as possible. He’s worked on national newspapers including the <em>Guardian</em>, <em>The Evening Standard</em>, <em>The Daily Telegraph</em>, <em>The Times</em> and <em>The Sun</em>.

He’s also one of our expert business-writing trainers and our lead course developer. He’s helped clients as diverse as London Business School, Airbus, Deutsche Bank and Aon to make more of an impact with everything they write.

How to handle post-presentation questions

Presentations are known for striking fear in the hearts of many. But, for some, the terror of presenting is surpassed only by having to field questions from the audience. If that's true for you, it's understandable. You could be worried about saying the wrong thing or...

Why you should make empathy your new business metric

Empathy: a lovely fluffy word, isn’t it? Touchy. Feely. Soft. Perhaps with hints of being rather passive – even submissive. When it comes to business, though, it’s time to banish such banal notions. Why? Well, because this so-called soft quality seems to have an...

The rise (and fails) of report robo-writers

In the 1991 blockbuster Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the time-travelling Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) reveals in deadpan tones how artificial intelligence (AI) put in charge of America’s weapons will deliberately trigger nuclear Armageddon. ‘The system goes...